For his part, DeBerry - who plays "Mr. Wong Fong Su" in the commercial - has defended the ad on Twitter, where he has argued, "I'm not a racist, I'm a member of the NAACP who has black relatives." In his own statement to Above The Law, DeBerry denies his company tampered with the firm's YouTube page, saying, "We run a production company that creates 'Cheesy B-Rate Commercials.' We have never had any involvement with McCutcheon & Hamner, P.C's Youtube Account."

You've got to be kidding me. At no point would anyone intelligent consider that ad as filmed a good idea. The ad agency, the law firm, and anyone else involved needs a serious kick in the ass.

Christ, Mickey Rooney was rightfully called out for his racist portrayal of I.Y. Yunioshi in 1961. 52 years ago!

Lsherm:For his part, DeBerry - who plays "Mr. Wong Fong Su" in the commercial - has defended the ad on Twitter, where he has argued, "I'm not a racist, I'm a member of the NAACP who has black relatives." In his own statement to Above The Law, DeBerry denies his company tampered with the firm's YouTube page, saying, "We run a production company that creates 'Cheesy B-Rate Commercials.' We have never had any involvement with McCutcheon & Hamner, P.C's Youtube Account."

You've got to be kidding me. At no point would anyone intelligent consider that ad as filmed a good idea. The ad agency, the law firm, and anyone else involved needs a serious kick in the ass.

Christ, Mickey Rooney was rightfully called out for his racist portrayal of I.Y. Yunioshi in 1961. 52 years ago!

THIS.

How was that video in any way funny... except to a raging, horribly racist person?

I thought you had to be somewhat smart to be a lawyer, but if they find this sort of thing "entertaining" I suspect I can dig up a pet rock and put it through law school.

LesserEvil:Lsherm: For his part, DeBerry - who plays "Mr. Wong Fong Su" in the commercial - has defended the ad on Twitter, where he has argued, "I'm not a racist, I'm a member of the NAACP who has black relatives." In his own statement to Above The Law, DeBerry denies his company tampered with the firm's YouTube page, saying, "We run a production company that creates 'Cheesy B-Rate Commercials.' We have never had any involvement with McCutcheon & Hamner, P.C's Youtube Account."

You've got to be kidding me. At no point would anyone intelligent consider that ad as filmed a good idea. The ad agency, the law firm, and anyone else involved needs a serious kick in the ass.

Christ, Mickey Rooney was rightfully called out for his racist portrayal of I.Y. Yunioshi in 1961. 52 years ago!

THIS.

How was that video in any way funny... except to a raging, horribly racist person?

I thought you had to be somewhat smart to be a lawyer, but if they find this sort of thing "entertaining" I suspect I can dig up a pet rock and put it through law school.

fark, even if the lawyers ran with it, who in the ad agency thought it was a good idea? What ad agency is this?

1) The law firm really, truly didn't ask for this or anything like it.

2) The law firm was super goddamn careless in who they were dealing with and probably has some (legally enforceable?) responsibility for this all the same.

3) The guy at the heart of this (Mr. "Wong Fong Su" himself) is the kind of guy who mixes one part pure unadulterated cracker-barrel racism with 20 parts weapons-grade stupid, such that he genuinely believes that he's not racist, you're the racist for not getting it, etc. The key here is the whole "I'm a member of the NAACP, I love 'The Ethnics,' I have black relatives, ergo SUPER NOT RACIST YOU GUYS" schtick.

Will my predictions turn out to be correct? I can't wait to never hear about any of these people ever again, so I don't really care.

For his part, DeBerry - who plays "Mr. Wong Fong Su" in the commercial - has defended the ad on Twitter, where he has argued, "There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on n***ers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here everyone is equally worthless."

WARNING: this character is not for the sensitive,This character was inspired in the same prerogative or edgy vein asRobert Downey Jr., in "Tropic Thunder"Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans in "White Chicks"C. Thomas Howell in "Soul Man"Cheech Marin in Cheech & Chong

LordOfThePings:WARNING: this character is not for the sensitive,This character was inspired in the same prerogative or edgy vein asRobert Downey Jr., in "Tropic Thunder"Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans in "White Chicks"C. Thomas Howell in "Soul Man"Cheech Marin in Cheech & Chong

Er, yeah.

It also ignores that RDJ wasn't playing "a black guy," but was explicitly "a white guy in blackface," and that the White Chicks example doesn't have the cultural background of a minstrel show working against it. Not familiar enough with Soul Man to comment one way or the other, but in at least three of the four cases, these jagoffs are arguing that same cliche, painfully obvious "it's not racist because someone else did something vaguely similar once."

ongbok:rudemix: That guy is in the NAACP and has black relatives? He's so white he's nearly translucent.

You don't know very about life except for what your Right Wing echo chamber tells you, do you?

My bad. I didn't know making asinine assumptions on limited information and sounding like a cockbag in this thread was your purview. I'm kinda new at it so all apologies for the faux pas. Fortunately there was a highly experienced cockbag to come make his own asinine assumption and guide me along on the protocol of these things. Thanks.

ZzeusS:Mister Pleco: Wow, my past Chinese girlfriend was pretty racist to the other four tribes (and to the Koreans and Japanese), but she would not have been so base to accept something like this. Wow.

Lsherm:For his part, DeBerry - who plays "Mr. Wong Fong Su" in the commercial - has defended the ad on Twitter, where he has argued, "I'm not a racist, I'm a member of the NAACP who has black relatives." In his own statement to Above The Law, DeBerry denies his company tampered with the firm's YouTube page, saying, "We run a production company that creates 'Cheesy B-Rate Commercials.' We have never had any involvement with McCutcheon & Hamner, P.C's Youtube Account."